Preparing Students for Workplace Success

To satisfy the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s goal of providing a comprehensive approach to college and career readiness, educators use WorkKeys® assessments to help students measure their skills—and see how they compare to what employers require.

Helping Job Seekers Stand Out to Employers

Phillips Staffing deployed ACT-authorized job profilers to work directly with area employers to analyze jobs and identify required skill levels. Next they used WorkKeys assessments to help their clients measure and certify the skills employers needed.

Matching the Right People to a Specialized Job

The Lexington County, South Carolina, 911 Communications Center needed to find the right people for a highly specialized job. The center worked with an ACT job profiler to better understand their needs, and then they administered WorkKeys assessments to measure applicants’ skills, which reduced their turnover and improved training.

Reducing Employee Turnover and Product Waste

Berner Foods was experiencing high turnover, significant training time and cost, and product waste due to evolving technology and related skill requirements. A combination of Job Profiling, WorkKeys, and the National Career Readiness Certificate helped them better understand the skills they need—and find the people who had them.

Identifying Quality Applicants

Inova Health was approaching a turnover rate of nearly 50 percent for two vital, entry-level positions. They were caught in a cycle of making quick hires instead of quality ones. By implementing WorkKeys, they found a way to instead make a quality hire more quickly and drastically reduce their turnover.

Using Skills Certification to Find the Best Talent

A new plant meant new growth opportunities for CG Power Systems. But it also meant new challenges. Changing skill requirements meant finding high-quality candidates for the new facility. The National Career Readiness Certificate helped them verify candidates’ skill levels and make the right hires.

Streamlining Applicant Screening

Subaru of Indiana Automotive used their region’s largest single job creation initiative in nearly 20 years to double its plant’s production capabilities and open more than 1,000 new jobs—for which 22,300 applications were received. ACT helped them establish an efficient screening system to hire the best people from the pool of candidates.

Finding Work Faster

When Ohio’s economy struggled, hundreds of manufacturing employees lost their jobs—with no documentation of the skill levels they had developed. State workforce and social service agencies, along with union organizations, tuned to the National Career Readiness Certificate to help the displaced workers verify their skill levels and find employment.